Xbox Live monthly active users dropped to 63m in last financial quarter

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The number of monthly active users (MAUs) on Microsoft's Xbox Live service was 63 million for the three months ending March 31st, 2019.

That's according to the Big M's financial report, which shows that Xbox Live MAUs dipped by one million quarter-on-quarter. For Q2 2019, the Xbox giant reported an active user base of 64m.

That 63m MAU figure is actually an increase of four million year-on-year, though in Q4 2018 and Q1 2019 Xbox Live had 57m active users each month.

The rise to 64m in the three months ending December 31st, 2018 will be due to the fact that a huge number of games launch in the final quarter of the year as well as people having time off and thus more leisure time.

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Alex Calvin launched PCGamesInsider.biz in August 2017 and has been its editor since. Prior to this, he was deputy editor at UK based games trade paper MCV and content editor for marketing and events for London Games Festival 2017. His work has also appeared in Eurogamer, The Observer, Kotaku UK, Esquire UK and Develop.